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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:55:00 +0000http://www.libertariannews.org/?p=10115#comment-1053712 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD OWN A FIREARM
1. Because You Own a Fire Extinguisher. Bad things happen. You can
still call 911, but when seconds count, you need to act quickly to save
your life and the life of those you love.
2. Because Shooting Is An Olympic Sport. Shooting is an Olympic sport
and the United States holds more gold medals than any other nation.
3. Because Most Americans Own Guns. You’ll be in good company as a
gun owner; nearly fifty percent of households in the U.S. own a firearm.
4. Because You Respect The U.S. Constitution. Sometimes you won’t
like it when people exercise fundamental freedoms protected by the
Constitution, such as freedom of speech. But that simply doesn’t matter:
The Supreme Court ruled that every person has a constitutional right to
own guns. So respecting the Constitution means respecting the right of
others to exercise those constitutional rights.
5. Because You Are More Likely to Die By Falling. There were 613
fatal firearms accidents in 2007, one-half of one percent of all fatal
accidents. You’re more likely to die by driving, poisoning, drowning or
falling than by a gun accident.
6. Because Guns Stop Burglars. Last year, the CDC estimated that
Americans used guns about 498,000 times to frighten away intruders
attempting to break into homes.
7. Because Gun Bans Increase Murder Rates. After D.C. banned handguns
in 1984, the average murder rate jumped 73 percent while the U.S.
murder rate fell 11 percent.
8. Because Guns Don’t Cause Murder. A New York Times study of 1,662
murders in the city found that 90 percent of the killers had criminal
records. Murderers are not ordinary, law abiding adults. Instead,
virtually all murderers are extremely aberrant individuals with life
histories of violence, psychopatholoy, and substance abuse.
9. Because Gun Owners Win Political Battles. Gun rights groups have
donated $22 million in political campaigns over the last decade, while
gun control groups gave $1.8 million.
10. Because Ignorance is Dangerous. At current homicide rates, 1 in
240 Americans will be murdered this year. You need to know how to
operate a tool that will immediately stop a threat and save your life
and the life of those in your household.
11. Because Guns Don’t Make Countries More Dangerous. Switzerland has
one of the world’s highest gun ownership rates and also one of the
lowest homicide rates. In contrast, the countries with the world’s worst
homicide rates—South Africa, Columbia, Brazil, Mexico, Filipines,
Taiwain—also prohibit law-abiding citizens from owning guns. Compare the
20 per 100,000 homicide rate in Russia, which bans guns, with the 2 per
100,000 rate in neighboring Poland. Compare gun-free Luxembourg’s 9 per
100,000 murder rate with Germany and France with rates of 0.93 and
1.65.
12. Because Gun Control Laws Don’t Increase Safety. The U.S. National
Academy of Sciences failed to identify even one gun control measure
that had a statistically significant reduction in violent crime,
suicide, or gun accidents. The Center for Disease Control reached the
same conclusion in 2003.
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